How it works

Le Raver reads the EDM press so you can see the shape of a story: who reported it, who was first, and who simply ran the press release.

Where the stories come from

An hourly job reads the RSS feed of every outlet on the sources list. Each item is stored with its headline, its publication time, a short excerpt, and a link. Nothing is rewritten and no article body is ever stored.

How stories get grouped

Items are matched against a vocabulary of artists, festivals, labels, and venues, then grouped into a story when they name the same subject within the same window. The earliest item in a group is marked first to report. Source count — how many tracked outlets carried a story — is the signal the whole site is ordered by.

Original reporting versus press release

The cyan and violet bar on every story splits its coverage two ways: outlets that appear to have done their own reporting, and outlets that appear to have run the announcement. This is inferred from the headline and excerpt, not asserted as fact about an outlet’s process. Where a story has not been classified, the bar is left empty rather than filled with a guess.

What Le Raver does not do

• It does not reproduce articles. Every story links out to the outlet that wrote it.
• It does not host images or video. Preview cards come from the source’s own tags.
• It does not rate outlets or make claims about people. Anything reputational belongs to the outlet that published it and is linked, not restated.
• It does not fact-check. Where fans vote, the result is a preference — what people want — never a verdict on whether something is true.

Summaries

When several outlets cover the same thing, a short neutral summary sits above the source list. It exists to point at the sources, not to replace them, and it is never written for a story only one outlet has. Single-source stories are link-only.